How to ... be a reflective practitioner.

To raise the question of the nature of narrative is to invite reflection on the very nature of culture and, possibly, even on the nature of humanity itself. So natural is the impulse to narrate, so inevitable is the form of narrative for any report of the way things really happened, that narrativity could appear problematical only in a culture in which it was absent-absent or, as in some domains of contemporary Western intellectual and artistic culture, programmatically refused. As a panglobal fact of culture, narrative and narration are less problems than simply data. As the late (and already profoundly missed) Roland Barthes remarked, narrative "is simply there like life itself. . international, transhistorical, transcultural."' Far from being a problem, then, narrative might well be considered a solution to a problem of general human concern, namely, the problem of how to translate knowing into telling,2 the problem of fashioning human experience into a form assimilable to structures of meaning that are generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture, but we have relatively less difficulty understanding a story coming from another culture, however exotic that

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The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality

The semantic turn: a new foundation for design, by Klaus Krippendorff, 2005, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, pp. 304, £44.99, hardback (ISBN 0 415 32220 0) The Semantic Turn: A New Foundation ...

The semantic turn: A new foundation for design

Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work

The Invisible Homeless: A New Urban Ecology

This paper reports an initial study using cultural probes to support design. Its aim was to provide designers and design students with ethnographic information not easily accessible via surveys, interviews, and user statistics. Our research applied the cultural probes method to domestic ironing practices. We communicated the narrative and pictorial data generated by this method to designers and asked them to interpret these data in terms of a new ironing board design. Finally, we conducted a content analysis to reveal how designers interpreted and used data from cultural probes to inform design ideas.

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How Do User Stories Inspire Design? A Study of Cultural Probes

In this study, we explore the identity work among volunteers in a local restaurant in one of the metropolitan cities of Turkey, which serves to paying customers by daytime, and free food to the hom...

“How Come This Man Is Homeless?” An Ethnographic Exploration of Identity Work among Volunteers in a Diner Serving to the Homeless:

In this study, we explore how designers made sense of user narratives that are generated through casual conversations in the context of discursively informed design. Our aim is to propose a method ...

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Inviting Ethnographic Conversations to Inspire Design: Towards a Design Research Method

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Çekyatın Öyküsü: Türkiye De Toplumsal Değişime Tanıklık Eden Bir Mobilya

This paper proposes a method that utilizes expressive narratives to inspire design, especially in the conceptualization process leading to design ideas. In this method, expressive narratives need to be deconstructed by designers through the identification of metaphors. These metaphors are then examined to discover the concepts they embody. While interpreting the metaphors the designers try to find alternative representations referring to the same concepts by creating generative metaphors, which open up new ways of looking at the situation by defining new connections. Eventually, the proposed method assists designers particularly in the development of coherent scenarios, abstraction and recontextualization of objects, and generation of new meanings in their conceptualization process.

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Papers

How Do User Stories Inspire Design? A Study of Cultural Probes

“How Come This Man Is Homeless?” An Ethnographic Exploration of Identity Work among Volunteers in a Diner Serving to the Homeless:

Inviting Ethnographic Conversations to Inspire Design: Towards a Design Research Method

Çekyatın Öyküsü: Türkiye De Toplumsal Değişime Tanıklık Eden Bir Mobilya

When rabbits lead to ideas: Inspiring design by retelling stories through metaphors